Video: Importing SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010

Watch this visual how-to video as you learn to import a SharePoint 2010 site definition using Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010.

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Sample: Integrating Custom Silverlight Applications with SharePoint Server 2010

Explore the code as you learn to use the SharePoint Foundation 2010 managed client object model to work with managed Microsoft Visual C# code within the context of custom Silverlight 4 applications.

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Sample: Integrating Custom Silverlight Applications with SharePoint Server 2010

SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour

Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, we’ve got a number of wonderful features this release and we’re really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010

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SharePoint Designer is Free – Behind the Scenes

By now, you’ve seen all the news about SharePoint Designer being free.

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Must Have Free Tools for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. That’s right; SPD is now free from http://www.microsoft.com/spd [Update] See Tom Rizzo talking about why MS has made SPD free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvvVJamO3nQ SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 aka (SWAT). http://www.idevfactory.com/products/swat/default.aspx

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Favorite CodePlex SharePoint Projects

You could visit CodePlex , type in SharePoint in the search box and sort by popularity to get the “top” projects, but here’s a list of the top projects picked by the SharePoint MVPs which I find to be a little more value-added than CodePlex’s popularity ranking. YMMV.

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Favorite CodePlex SharePoint Projects